RWE selects Thyborøn Port to build Thor offshore wind farm

Energy company RWE has selected Thyborøn Port as the offshore construction base for its Thor offshore wind farm.

Thyborøn is a commercial port on the Danish North Sea coast with 6km of quays and 1,000,000 square metres of adjoining land to service local businesses.

The port is 20 nautical miles from the Thor wind farm, for which seabed surveys were conducted from the port.

According to RWE, the port will house the project’s service vessels and the control centre for managing marine logistics and traffic during the construction phase. Secondary steel structures will also be handled from the Danish port during the foundation installation phase, which will begin in spring 2025.

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Günther Fenle, project director for Thor at RWE commented in a statement: “Thyborøn will play an important role in the successful delivery of our Thor project – Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to date. Secondary steel structures, such as boat landings for the foundations, will be handled there. Thyborøn Port will provide us with the necessary facilities and port infrastructure, while Buss Ports will manage the port logistics. Thyborøn will be home to the Thor team for more than two years as they manage all construction activities.”

Karl Kristian Bro, chairman of the Board at Port of Thyborøn added: “RWE selecting Thyborøn Port as base port for the installation of secondary steel structures and as construction base for Thor offshore wind farm is the approval of our strategic direction targetting to increase the port capacity for offshore wind components.

"Ensuring value creation with our investments has top priority, for this reason we plan and develop new port facilities in close collaboration with our customers.”

Thor is located in the Danish part of the North Sea, approximately 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland. The wind farm will have 72 wind turbines with half of the turbines being equipped with CO2-reduced steel towers and 40 of them will feature recyclable rotor blades.

With a planned capacity of more than 1,000MW, Thor is Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to date and once fully operational will be capable of producing enough green electricity to supply the equivalent of more than a million households.

RWE aims for Thor to be fully operational by the end of 2027 and recently received the construction permit for the installation works at sea from the Danish Energy Agency.

The turbine installation works are scheduled to be carried out from the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark starting in 2026.